Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ucheldre Centre (Former Bon Sauveur Convent Chapel),
Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 4 May 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 4 May 1989
- Community
- Holyhead
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.30939, -4.63834
- Cadw reference
- 5741
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 93 Holyhead (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
History
Formerly chapel of former Bon Sauveur convent. Romanesque style; 1934-37 by Professor R M Butler, architect, of Dublin. Former attached early C20 school closed and demolished 1980’s. Under conversion to community centre at time of inspection.
Exterior
Grey-green stone with pale stone dressings over inner concrete core, grey-green slate roofs. Romanesque apsidal plan with low aisles, flanking vestry blocks, and saddle entrance tower. Simple round-arched openings to six bay sides. Saddle tower with parapetted gables, twin-arched openings with shafts and linked hood moulds, tall single light with twin nookshafts between clasping buttresses, blind arcade over 3-order doorway. To L of tower, 3 arches to service block with long return in grey stone; doorway flanked by groups of 3 round-headed windows; towards rear, two windows with 7 narrow arched lights; modern block with hipped roof to rear. To R of tower, arched screen wall in exposed stone connects to Ty’n Parc.
Interior
Undivided interior of 6 bays with concrete tunnel vault and semi-dome to apse, half-shafts to transverse ribs. Full-height arched bays interpenetrate main vault; single clerestorey lights over segmental aisle openings. Timber gallery in front of tower arch.
Reason for designation
Group value with Ty’n Parc.
Nearby in the register
- Ty'n ParcDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cybi Building, Holyhead High SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Boundary Wall to Cybi Building, Holyhead High SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Hyfrydle Chapel (including Forecourt Gates and Railings)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.